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Demographic barometer

In the EU-27 live about 68 million children under 15 and 74 million young people aged 15-29

• Males outnumber females in all ages under 30
• Average age of leaving home is 26.4 years for the EU27 as a whole, but varies markedly across countries, from 17.5 years in Sweden to 32.4 years in Croatia
• A trend towards higher age at first marriage is observed in recent decades in all countries of the European Union
• Average age of a mother at first birth is over 29 in the EU-27, ranging from 26 in Bulgaria to 31 in Italy and Spain
• Child and youth mortality continues to decline in EU countries

Population and society

• Newsletter "Population and Society" resumes publication
• Alexey Shchur. Differences in life expectancy by types of settlements in Russia

Q&A

• "The fifth wave" and how to deal with it?
• Church and State
• One out of three Russians don’t know how their pension is calculated. Only one out of twenty considers the pension system fair
• Russians believe that the minimum wage should be 2.5 times higher
• Potential for internal urban-rural migration

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural decline in population of Russia has increased by 64%
• Mortality in November increased by 17% compared to the same period of the previous year
• Rosstat to release first census data in April
• Ministry of Health invites Russians to learn about "lost years of life"
• Far East residents are promised a million rubles for third child
• Ministry of Labor announces increase in minimum maternity benefits in 2022
• Disability pensions will be assigned without need for application
• The number of working young Russians has decreased by 460 thousand
• Outflow of population from Far East continues
• Medvedev predicts increase in influx of migrants to Russia
• Marriage and children stamp in passport will become optional
• Putin submits bill to State Duma simplifying acquisition of Russian citizenship
• Russia introduces institution of termination of citizenship of the Russian Federation
• More than 7 million migrants have received permission to stay in Russia in last 2 years
• Russia reduces Covid quarantine to seven days

World News

• Could Moldova's population be less than 2.6 million?
• Estonia has negative population growth in 2021
• China intends to increase life expectancy by a year in five years
• In Germany, the number of deaths over year exceeded 1 million
• Romania records highest death toll in 30 years
• Fertility in China falls to lowest level since 1949
• Serbia will pay €850 for second and third child
• South Korea capital to stimulate fertility
• 60% of Ukrainian citizens risk being left without pensions in 30 years
• Will Germany face a shortage of 5 million workers by 2030?
• The number of labor migrants from Belarus in Poland has increased by 16 times since 2008
• About 200,000 illegal migrants arrived in the EU over past year
• UN announces tenfold increase in the flow of refugees in the Sahel
• Over past week 15 million new COVID-19 cases in the world
• WHO warns of three difficult months of pandemic
• Will there be new strains of COVID-19 after Omicron?

The newspapers write about…

• Novaya Gazeta, RBK and Izvestia on the labor shortage
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on internal migration
• RBK on the simplification of the procedure for obtaining citizenship
• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on new strain of Covid-19
• Izvestiya on consequences of the coronavirus
• Novaya Gazeta on access to medical care
• RBK on the standard of living
• Al Jazeera on sanitation

Read books and magazines

• The demographic health of Russia’s regions
• Demographic Yearbook of Russia 2021
• Preserving Russia’s population: health, employment, level and quality of life
• Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2020 (morbidity and mortality)
• Women and men of Kazakhstan 2016-2020
• Through the pages of the journals Obshchestvennoye zdorov'ye (Public Health) and Zdorov'ye, demografiya, ekologiya finno-ugorskikh narodov (Health, demography, ecology of the Finno-Ugric peoples)
• Contents of the journal Demographic Research

Profession: researcher

• A year has passed since Anatoly Grigorievich Vishnevsky is no longer with us
• My best editor and longtime co-author: in memory of A.G. Vishnevsky (1935-2021)
• Speech by A.G. Vishnevsky at the symposium on March 30 (1987-1988)

Student Page

• The epidemic yesterday and today: plague as a factor in changing demographic processes (using the example of mortality and migration in England of the 17th century)